Venezuela 'ends' bid to restore full US ties

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62. give it a rest.

Russia, China, and yes Chevron, etc., are bidding on Venezuela oil.
Venezuela has been "allied with" China for several years.

If you're saying that "western" multi-nationals aren't interested in Venezuelan oil because it's "heavy" and "sour", then what's your point in the first place? But that, of course, is false, since "western" multi-nationals are currently players and that won't change because of this latest diplomatic tiff.

You seem to have a lot of stock phrases at hand to denigrate Venezuela. Everything about it. I've already met with others like you on DU and those writers seem to have something against socialism. That is, social ownership of natural resources. None of you ever seem to mind when the US overthrows a democracy, installs a dictator, a puppet, in order to privatize the national resources on US terms. You don't seem to care how the citizens of these countries get the shitty end of the stick, their birthright stolen. But you go ballistic at the notion that a country might elect a socialist party and leader and nationalize its national resources and renegotiate conditions from a position of freedom. In this case Venezuela.